Famous artists, when they weren't painting the covers for the magazines, paid their bills by doing art for advertisers. Some of the things they did can stand up with the best of their covers, and much of it is fascinating today for what it tells us about life and popular culture of the past. This is a small door that opens up into a very large cathedral of art.
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Here we find pulps devoted to the adventurous thrills that all their readers hoped might be theirs some day, or else just lived vicariously in the thrilling dreams of others. Danger! Warfare! Frontiers! Mysterious messages and treacherous missions against hopeless odds!
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Advertisements for meat, corn flakes, candy bars, flour, beer, wine, spirits, broccoli, peanut butter: Here they are.
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Automobile ads kept magazines going through good times and hard. High-ticket items, they could afford to pay for color reproduction when that was too expensive for most other products. Everybody knows something about cars! Some of these ads were created by the best artists in the business. And some of them are just fun to look at as nostalgia; or, if you prefer, ancient history. Trucks here, too. Also wagons and carriages.   If you like these, check out this great website of scans of...
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Begun in 1910 as a way for publisher Ridgway to tap into a new market, it specialized in stories of danger and thrills. At this time other pulp and popular magazines contained a wide variety of stories ranging from danger to romance (even when these are not the same thing). Its creation was a logical response to the success of pulps like ARGOSY, which by 1910 were selling hundreds of thousands of copies of each issue; but the focus on adventure was something new. It survived, in one form or...
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Art prints have been around as long as printing has been around. Film, movies, cinema, as an art that moves, only a short time, but fully the memory of living humans. Books and magazines have been the subject of ads as long as the memory of humankind. Or so it would seem. Not only did magazines run ads for themselves and for other titles from the same publisher, they often ran ads for totally unconnected magazine titles. Sometimes they sold the space to the other publisher, and sometimes they...
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Topics: Weekly Magazines, Collier's, The National Weekly, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
Audio, and early video, and records, and entertainment. The beginnings of an industry that is still with us, slowly engulfing (or being engulfed by) the computer industry.
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Mainstays of the advertising pages were personal items such as toiletries, beauty aids, perfumes, bath and facial soaps, and the like. Human interactions are important: Flowers, cards, notes.
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A noxious weed, and an important part of the American economy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tobacco advertising paid for many an editorial lunch and kept lots of artists employed.
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Here are the ads for the common everyday household things you need to have around to keep the place clean and running. And also the objects of beauty that make life worthwhile. A little bit of decoration, a little bit of dirt removal.
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Clothing and fashions pay the bills at our department stores and shopping malls. We pay the bills for our clothing and fashions. And advertisements in magazines told us what we were going to buy (or make), and why.
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The (undated) first issue of Hugh Hefner's revolutionary magazine, the one with the famous center spread of Marilyn Monroe. Artist: Source: eBay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Playboy, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Magazines aimed at men. A lot of cheesecake and spicy stuff, with a lot of adventure and sweat. You know what you're looking for here.
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Build a transportation system, and people and things will travel. Here are ads for all things related.
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This archive is about art in vintage magazines, but there weren't actually that many vintage magazines about art and design. Even if you throw Antiques into the pot, the number is small. Don't worry; it may be small, but what's here will be of great interest.
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What happened when a white man and a native girl met far from civilization. Actually, this is an ad for the new 26-volume set of the works of Joseph Conrad, illustrated by a still from an MGM movie apparently based on "An Outcast of the Islands." This ad was published in the August, 1927 issue of THE AMERICAN MERCURY. Artist: Source: MagazineArt.org Physical Archives Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Art, Film, Book, Movie, and Magazine Ads, Book Ads: Fiction, magazine...
Health and medicine ads have supported numberless magazines over the years. Some publishers refused patent medicine ads, and some got rich on them. Ditto for equipment, which can range from something as straightforward as crutches to something as questionable and as "Violet Rays". Techniques can be as simple as yoga and as complex as sequestration in a private hospital.
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Bicycles became vastly popular in the late 19th century and paved the way (sorry!) for automobiles by creating a population that wanted good, smooth, hard-surfaced roads and plenty of them. Motorcycles were an adaption that combined the best and worst of the two. And then there were motorbikes, and scooters, and any motorized conveyance that could spring full-blown from the head of the American backyard inventor.
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First issue of WEIRD TALES; normal version with correct color inks.
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Advertisements for outdoor and indoor sports and equipment for them. Guns, rods, racquets, balls; the list is endless.
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Without cameras the magazineart.org would be a lot smaller and less interesting. Hail photography!
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There were at least three issues of this pulp, but even the experts don't have much to say about it, except "rare to very rare".
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Toys. Games. Let's play.
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Pens and pencils and paper and office supplies. Now we have major national chains providing these materials to the end consumer. Back in the day we needed to see ads like these to decide what to buy. Hey, we still do.
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Viola Dana, celebrity endorsement, Maybelline. Accentuates the lovely sweep and length of her curling lashes by darkening them with Maybelline. From the August, 1926 issue of PHOTOPLAY. Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Personal and Human Aspects, Women's Toiletries and Makeup, beauty,...
ROMANCE specialized in romance and love stories set among exotic and distant lands, in historical settings, and in the face of danger and adventure. This was the second pulp magazine published by Ridgway, a company which had been successful first with EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, a mass-market title printed on quality paper and aimed at both men and women, and secondly with ADVENTURE, a purely pulp magazine aimed primarily at men. It debuted in November 1919, and at first published mostly fiction in...
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Two nearly naked Greco-Roman wrestlers. PHYSICAL CULTURE "Points the Way to Virile Manhood and Superb Womanhood," and is "The Guide to Real Efficiency." Artist: Source: Collector and author John Locke Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Physical Culture, nude, competition, Olympics, gay
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Naked woman wrapped in a bouquet with roses; a "rose among the flowers." Artist: Source: Curious Book Shop; photograph by magscanner Restoration by: Chad Wicker
Topics: Humor Magazines, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, metaphor, nude, nudity, seduction
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Nudist people read newspapers, drink coffee and cocktails, and talk amongst themselves. Content: "Baltic Night," by Paul Morand, and items by Sinclair Lewis, Turgeniev, William Seabrook, Richard W. Child, Smollett, and Stephen Leacock. Artist: Source: Cynde Georgen, Trail End Historic Site, Sheridan Wyoming Restoration by: Cynde Georgen
Topics: General Fiction Pulps, Golden Book, drama, struggle, nudity, compassion, Russian
Women's magazines covered some or all aspects of what was thought of as womans' life of the time, especially current fashions, housekeeping, children, decoration, and the management of home economics. For relaxation there were lots of fiction, puzzles and games, many serious and informative articles, and some excellent cover artwork. And ads, lots of advertisements, for travel, cosmetics, clothing and fashions, jewelry, foods, domestic and kitchen appliances.
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Photo of Lilly St. Cyr in even less, strategically hidden behind content banner. Nudists hold a convention. Glamour girl comedienne. Wild gorilla on a spree. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Woman in classical costume, more risque yet. Artist: Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Art and Design (and Antiques), Art Magazine, sex, art, money
Adventure in the Orient! A continuation of ORIENTAL STORIES, there were five issues published quarterly 1933-4. A rare and valued pulp.
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Photo of Barbara Osterman in bikini swimwear. Durocher's luck; girlie Las Vegas; Germany's sex problem; hillbillies take over Hollywood; and other stories. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Among the most popular of the pulp magazines were those specializing in science fiction and fantasy stories. Most of cover art for these is well covered in existing websites. On MagazineArt.org we concentrate on rare and uncommon titles, those you are unlikely to see elsewhere.
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Source: Collector and bibliographer Steve Lamazow Image Restoration: magscanner Our Sponsors:
Topics: Humor Magazines, Early Humor Magazines, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art,...
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39 home workshop projects; complete plans for 15 foot canoe. Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
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An artistic nude in the woods to attract buyers with the cover art. Artist: Carl V. Mar Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Art and Design (and Antiques), Magazines About Art, sex, nudity, classical
More action and adventure! Fiction House's ACTION NOVELS published 25 issues in the period 1928-33. It was revived as a quarterly as ALL-ADVENTURE ACTION NOVELS in 1937, but only actually published one issue each in 1937, 1938 and 1939, before disappearing for good. Source: AHGTTP.
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Marilyn Monroe Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
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Magazines aimed at children and young people have a long and generally positive history. Many writers and artists who grew in the late 19th and early 20th centuries trace their fascination with the arts to the magazines they read as children.
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Marilyn Monroe Source: eBay seller unclecrickey, via Croaker
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Woman in elaborate tent wearing a patterned cape, holds it up for you to see. For the "Autumn Pattern Number" of the magazine. Published in the October 13, 1922 issue of LIFE, the Humor Magazine. Artist: Helen Dryden Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: Mariangela Buch
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Photograph of strong man Eugene Sandow. Source: eBay sellers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Health and Fitness Magazines, Physical Culture, strength, exercise, weights, body
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Mad historian about to drop 500-year time capsule, containing nude man and woman, into the earth. Artist: Source: Heritage Auctions Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Horror, Terror, and Shudder Pulps, Horror Stories, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
There were plenty of pulp and pulp-like magazines that used sex as a marketing tool, whether explicit (and sold under the counter) or just as a theme. A lot of them ran only one or a few issues and were published by fly-by-night operators, but others lasted for years and anchored large publishing companies.A good short history of SNAPPY STORIES (to be added) can be found at the eNewsstand project.
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An assortment, a variety, a gathering of adventures.
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Find here ads for instruments, sheet music, musical books, accessories, concerts; anything music-related. However, note that phonographs and record players and gramophones have their own section, with radios, televisions and the like.
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Magazines about humor. Humorous magazines. Magazines full of jokes and funny stories and cartoons and parodies and humorous pictures.
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Woman smiles knowingly, staring at a statue of an undraped female torso in a museum. Another good way to show a sexy babe without necessarily getting hauled in by the porn police in 1921. Artist: Source: Curious Book Shop; photograph by magscanner Restoration by: Chad Wicker
Topics: Humor Magazines, Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang, babe, nude, nudity, scandal
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10 STORY BOOK began in 1901 as a magazine publishing general fiction, but after a few years became a spicy magazine featuring female nudes. It was edited 1917-1940 by the astonishing Harry Stephen Keeler.
Topics: Spicy Pulps, A Variety of Spicy Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
Topics: Adventure Pulps, Adventure magazine, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage...
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Spicy pulp or photojournalism? America's most undressed working girls. And one of them a photojournalist, too. "The entertaining picture magazine." Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: News and Current Events Magazines, Photojournalism Magazines, sex, legs, babe, beauty
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Two cats challenge each other on the peak of a roof; the black cat is framed against a full moon. "Steve Merrill, Engineer." Artist: Paul Bransom Source: eBay seller norbooks Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Youth, Children, and Kids' Magazines, American Boy, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
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Doe-eyed woman looks off into space as she seals the envelope on one of many Valentine cards she is about to send off. Items by Harris Dickson, John. P. Marquand, and Albert Richard Wetjen. Artist: Jorj Harris Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast. Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Weekly Magazines, Collier's, The National Weekly, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
Ad for Modes magazine, with pattern included, from the November, 1896 issue of COSMOPOLITAN. Source: Mariangela Buch Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Art, Film, Book, Movie, and Magazine Ads, Magazine Ads: General,...
In the beginning, SHORT STORIES was a small magazine that published literary short stories, often translated from other languages. By the 1914 it had become a pulp magazine, generally featuring an action scene on its cover. A SHORT STORIES cover from its glory days is immediately recognizable from the iconic red sun that from 1917 was always found in the background. For many years it published two issues a month, but went to monthly publication with the April, 1949 issue. In the 1950's it...
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Dolores Rosedale Source: eBay Sellers via Croaker
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Mostly naked woman being threatened metaphorically by a giant human skeleton, or at least parts thereof. Artist: Source: Charles Perrien Restoration by: Charles Perrien
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Jet-propelled racer seen at speed on the sand at the beach, article by Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. Artist: Source: The Gerik family of Lawton, Oklahoma Restoration by: magscanner
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Safecracker, distracted by beautiful woman tied to vault controls in bondage pose, decides to see if her melting temperature is the same as that of the steel door. Artist: John Newton Howitt Source: Heritage Auctions Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Horror, Terror, and Shudder Pulps, Horror Stories, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising...
Our magazines, especially those aimed at men, have always been full of ads for neat technology stuff (to use the technical term). Here's the category for all those ads (except for Radio/Audio/TV, which has its own category).
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Humor pulp or photojournalism? Legs, Hollywood, neuroticism, glamor. Source: ebay seller powerangers Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: News and Current Events Magazines, Photojournalism Magazines, sex, legs, pix
Ad for the first issue of AMAZING STORIES; published in another Gernsback magazine, the April, 1926 issue of RADIO NEWS.
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Betty Brown and Marjorie Woodworth, University of Southern California majorettes. Society Lifts Its Skirts. Strip-Tease Girl. Danger makes a Roosevelt. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
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First issue of WEIRD TALES; variant edition printed with black and orange plates inked in opposite color, and other problems.
Topics: Rare Pulps, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
Artist: Source: Vintage Magazine Seller ephemeraforever.com Restoration: magscanner
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A very relaxed, and very sexy, babe tells all about her two men, and/or her sister's husband, and who knows what all. The art makes it look more like a Spicy title. AHGTTP lists this a pulp magazine, with four issues 1937-8, from Western Publishing (Red Circle). However, it's not in Ellis's book "Uncovered," so we're putting it here. Artist: Source: Joe Lovece Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Romance and Confession Magazines, All Kinds of Confessions, magazine covers, vintage magazines,...
Woman in blue silk/satiny dress shows off her legs in fine silk stockings. Behind her is a painting or fabric sample in complementary colors, atop a brown cabinet offering contrast. The art does the selling, and the text is minimal. Published in a 1923 issue of the AMERICAN MAGAZINE. Artist: Coles Phillips Source: eBay seller daysoffuturepast, who also sells printed materials from her personal website. Restoration by: jess at daysoffuturepast
Topics: Advertising Art in Magazines, Clothing and Fashions, Women's Hosiery, class, slinky, gams, beauty,...
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Our earliest Bolles FILM FUN cover, showing the happy little fairy that awaits you at the Rainbow's End, sitting on a movie camera. Also: "How to Catch a Whiffenpoof," by Buster Keaton. Artist: Enoch Bolles Source: Mark Forer Restoration by: Mark Forer
Topics: Movies, TV, and Radio Magazines, Film Fun, the spicy Bolles covers and the movie stills, movies,...
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Santa Claus talks to the eager recipients via radio. "Let our hook-ups be your guide." Artist: Raymond Cornell Source: Robert, KD4HSH Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Science and Technology Magazines, Radio Age, Christmas, holiday, gift, new
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Toy invention! Big money for home workshop fans. Man with wooden animals, including a Donald Duck (wonder if he licensed it?) Source: Grenville Abernethy, who sells on eBay as banjoflier, and has an eBay store as "model aviation magazines".
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An intimate photo of Ruth Woods, popular New York model. Pat Joyce in action. A stripper displays the way to higher education. Source: eBay seller unclecrickey Restoration by: magscanner
Topics: Men's Magazines, Laff, magazine covers, vintage magazines, advertising art, vintage advertisements
